Date: Sun, 7 Sep 1997 13:41:41 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Nate Eldredge <eldredge AT ap DOT net>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Suggestion: emacs handling gzipped info files
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On Sat, 6 Sep 1997, Nate Eldredge wrote:

> Since `info' has been made able to read gzipped info files, I think this
> should be done for Emacs's info reader as well. It would be really
> convenient for those of us who use Emacs a lot (those info files are big).
> The Unix version does this, perhaps inspiration could be drawn from it. I'd
> volunteer, but I know nothing about Emacs Lisp.

The code that supports this is not Unix-specific, it's just that a bug
has crept into there which prevents this from working on DOS and
MS-Windows.  If you care, I can send you a patch for info.el that will
fix this (you do NOT have to build Emacs to install the patch, you only 
need the original info.el file).